Tag: Sentimental Sunday
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Trimming the Family Tree
I print three calendars monthly from Family Tree Maker. One is for all the births in my family tree that occur in that month, another is for marriages and the last is for deaths. The font has to be very small in order for the names to fit in each…
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A Week of Ancestors 5/19
May 19 to May 25 BIRTHS: What is about Jennie that makes me want to know more about her life? She appears in several other family trees on Ancestry, but the fact fields tend to be incomplete and sources are scarce. Eugenia Schmitt was born in Cincinnati on 21 May…
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A Week of Ancestors
April 21-27 Seeing the places where my ancestors lived their lives was an amazing part of last year’s trip to Scandinavia. BIRTHS: It was an emotional experience being in the spot where “our” cottage stood 154 years ago. Elis Peterssdotter, who I wrote about here, was born at a farm…
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Happy Birthday Grandson!
That first day of having you on the planet was an amazing day for all of us. You hold a special place in our family tree; the eldest child of the eldest child (your mom) of the eldest child (me) of the eldest child (my dad). And you certainly hold a…
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This Being Her First Birthday in Heaven
In Memoriam columns often contain the most personal notices on the obituary page of a newspaper. The column below, which first appeared on page 19 of the May 12, 1913 issue of the Chicago Daily News, is no exception: These columns remind me to go beyond the year of death when searching for…
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